Spelling

UIL Spellers and Music Memory participants will not be taking the regular classroom Spelling tests.  I want them learning the spelling required on their UIL tests.

WEEK 6 NO SPELLING UNTIL AFTER THANKSGIVING

Week 5 of Second Six Weeks- Test on Nov. 5

web       sticky       bait      cell     silk     weave     fiber     strands     beetle     thread   science     fang      breathe     taste     prey    

Challenge Words:  earthquake, hatch, respect, soldiers, woven

Week 4 of Second Six Weeks- Test on Oct. 29

Plurals

s                                   es                  y to i add -es

blankets                 branches               flies               

mountains              bunches                libraries

states                      inches                   enemies

pairs                        addresses            daisies

pockets                                                 companies

jungles

Challenge words:  capture, liquid, ruin skills, struggles

Week 3 of Second Six Weeks- Test on Oct. 22

spend     spring        stream     scream     skate     slept

spider     sprinkle     strong      scrub        skin        sleeve

                                   string       screen                    slice

Challenge words:  buffalo, darkness, echoes, ripe, shelter

Week 2 of Second Six Weeks- Test on Oct. 15

UIL spellers will do #'s 21 thru 40

Words with consonant clusters

block       brake       crazy         flash       grab       plate       

blink        broad       crumble    flood        grand     plenty

blind        brisk                       flame     

Challenge Words:  canyons, flowed, grains, handful, peaks 

Week 1 of Second Six Weeks-Test on Oct. 8

open     battle     even     candle     frozen     carrots     silent     bottle    

lazy    lettuce     maple     fellow     fifty     flavor     floppy

Challenge Words:   area, excitement, halfway, heap, schedule

NO SPELLING WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 28.  This will be typical for the six week of every six weeks.   

Week 4-Test on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009

Words with long i and long o

might     life          rode     own     most     tie     find     toast     wipe 

flight      bicycle     lie       spoke    ago      thrown  

Challenge:  guard, length, royal, straighten, within

Week 3- Test on Friday, Sept. 11 because of Labor Day short week

Words with long u

music     broom     soup     fruit     huge     drew     truth     pool     goose     excuse     dew      juice     crew    group     produce     

Challenge:  ceiling, eager, including, scene, section

Week 2- Test on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009

Words with long e and long a

plane     team      raise    breeze     paper     marry     weigh     thief   

cream     awake     grade     creek     carry     sail     neighbor

Challenge words: continue, correct, embarrass, legend, unusual

Week 1

Words with Short Vowels

leg       black       much       bag       rocks       kept       hid       window

van       mix         rub         ever       buzz       body       thing

Challenge words:  astonished, enormous, journey, scattered, surrounded

* All spelling must be written in cursive beginning of the 2nd six weeks.  Students are encouraged to start before that time.  We are reviewing cursive.

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